[Deptheads] Cross-Marketing with WyrdCon

[Nekojin]

Please be VERY careful in how you approach Ira with this. He is very
adamant that WyrdCon isn't a LARP convention, that it's a
*storytelling*convention, and that LARP is merely one of many facets
of storytelling.


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Dean Taylor <deanatay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Strategicon has been weak on LARPs for most of the time I've been with you
> (although our live staged theater events seem to be doing quite well).
> Cross-promoting with a specialty LARP con like WyrdCon seems like it would
> help both of us.  The Westin's only 2 blocks east of the Hilton, so people
> could wander from one con to the other pretty easily.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Nekojin <nekojin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Polly and I went to Wyrdcon 3, and we were the ones who suggested to the
>> Wyrdcon executives that a cross-promotion with us might be beneficial.
>>
>> A little backstory, if you haven't gotten this from them yet: They'd
>> decided that their current hotel was simply too small for their convention
>> to grow any further, so they started hunting for another hotel. They
>> settled on the LAX Westin, but the only weekend that the Westin could give
>> them was the Memorial Day weekend. They would rather NOT be on that
>> weekend, since they're aware that puts them in conflict with... well,
>> everything. But they needed to land the hotel first, and then start seeking
>> for a better date for NEXT year.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Kryssie <phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I was contacted (along with Shawn) about cross-promotions with WyrdCon
>>> during Gamex.
>>>
>>> I don't know what others' feelings on WyrdCon are, but it may be
>>> something worth discussing and doing....
>>>
>>>
>>> Kryssie Mackey
>>> Marketing Director
>>> 310-766-9954
>>> phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com
>>> Strategicon Events <http://www.strategicon.net>
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